guōwāi

chat

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
冎 sound component

  Sound component

guǎ

  

bone

口 meaning component

  Meaning component

kǒu

  

mouth

Evolution

咼 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
咼 Clerical script Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)

Clerical script

Qin dynasty (221-206 BC)
咼 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

() 

guō

chat, jaw, gossip, talk; mouth

() 

Guō

surname Guo

() 

wāi

lopsided; Taiwan pr. [kuāi]

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

Sound component in 7 characters (2 verified)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷˤrajʔ

kwaeX

wāi

cut meat from the bone


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6323rd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Simplified

Unicode

U+54BC

Shuowen

“咼,口戾不正也。从口,咼聲。”


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